All language subtitles for Law.and.Order.Special.Victims.Unit.S27E16.Vivid.480p.x264-mSD[EZTVx.to]

In the criminal justice system, sexually
based offenses are considered

especially heinous.

In New York City, the dedicated
detectives who investigate these vicious

felonies are members of an elite squad
known as the Special Victims Unit.

These are their stories.

What the hell? That's my car.

Hey, don't come any closer. Look what
you did. He said stand back.

What is it?

Police!

Hey, watch me, Lee.

Don't move.

Put your hands on the car.

Go.

Are you all right? Do you need an
ambulance?

No. I'm okay.

What happened?

Uh, I just came out and found him
wrecking up my car. Any idea why?

I mean, I guess that.

I take it you're Zach.

I just think it's important to believe
victim.

Well, I couldn't agree more.

But are you saying that you're a victim?
I'm saying when people speak up, nobody

listens. I'm listening.

Margo, I'm all ears. No, you're going to
say what everyone else says. What was

she wearing?

Was she drinking?

Okay, Margo, please. Just yes or no.

Were you a victim of sexual assault?

You see? You're not listening.

This all got out of hand. Nobody
intended for anybody to get hurt.

Yeah, kind of hard to buy that when you
show up with a baseball bat, Harrison.

Margo said it was just a precaution.
What else did Margo say?

That it's important to take a stand.

And it is.

And that we should believe women. And I
do.

You always do what Margo tells you.
She's very, very smart.

And she cares about the world.

And justice.

And she's smart.

And she told you that Jack was a rapist?

I am not a rapist.

I don't even know what they're talking
about.

You've never met either of them? No. A
couple days ago, I started getting all

these DMs on my socials. They found my
work email. Total strangers saying I

raped somebody.

Zach, what I need you to focus on is why
they'd get this idea about you.

Man, I don't know.

They're crazy. You know, mistaken
identity.

I don't even know who's saying I did
that.

Marco, this is not a trick question.

It's yes or no.

Is the victim a friend of yours or not?
What if she's not?

Do we have to be besties?

Oh, my God. You don't have to be
anything. I don't know how to get

you. I cannot move forward with this
investigation until I have a name.

Who is this victim you are avenging?

Like a name?

Yeah. Exactly. Like a name.

I don't actually know her real life
name.

I never met her.

You never had one conversation with her.
No, but it doesn't matter. What matters

is we found her rapist and you didn't.
Okay, Margo.

I need you to give me something to
investigate.

Just one thing.

It could be anything. I need you to give
me one thing.

Her name is Jaded Ember.

She's a VTuber on Twitch.

Like a virtual streamer.

I

mean...

You'd have to be crazy to ignore that.

How can we just not try to help?

So we think he's chasing the houses
until the occupants leave. So I'm

an additional unit to Sector David.

Questions?

All right. Then let's focus on quality
stops and good collars and make sure

body cams are up and running. Be
professional, respectful, and everyone

back in one piece.

All right. Thanks. Ms. Smith.

Not one officer checking their phone
name looks like you. Well, there may or

not be a rumor going around that anyone
not paying attention to the role gets

zero OT.

You're laying down the hammer.

Guess I'm a natural.

I don't like this.

Nothing to like. It is what it is.

Yeah, but can I still be mad for you?

Uh, shoot, I got a, uh, budgeting
meeting coming up, but tell Griff if he

parks in front of the precinct again,
I'm gonna have his ass towed.

I'm not gonna lie, that interview from
last night kind of broke my brain. Yeah,

I feel like I know less after talking to
them than I did after reading that two

-sentence police report.

I had to cut Zach loose. He said he'd
stay in town. Yeah, we got nothing to

him on. What'd I miss?

Whole lot of questions. Okay, so I found
the rest of that clip from Jaded

Ember's Twitch site. She's got a ton of
fans on GameCast.

Mostly live streams herself playing
video games, but here's a part of the

where she talks about being raped.

I was in therapy when it all came back
to me.

It's so crazy how your brain can just
forget things that are, like, too

traumatic. But I can feel him pressing
down on my neck, telling me to relax.

I could hardly breathe. I couldn't
scream.

crazy. I hope you guys believe me.

So it's a recovered memory.

Yeah, for someone who won't reveal their
identity, it's tricky.

Did she identify her rapist? No,
nothing. No name, no details.

But our vigilante Margo claims that her
detective skills are so incredible that

they have cracked the case.

Zach is also a gamer. He's got a big
following on Twitch.

He and Jaded Ember were dating, but Zach
claims they never met, only online.

They had a big public ugly breakup about
a year ago. Her fans just jumped to

their own conclusions.

It seems real thin.

How many of her fans think that he's a
rapist? Most of them. So he could be

looking at more of her fans, tracking
him down and harassing him, or worse.

So let's get a subpoena for her
identity. That way, if she makes a

have something to investigate.

April DSO.

Uh, yeah?

You're jaded in birth.

What's this about? We're from Special
Victims Unit. Can we talk to you for a

sec?

I don't recognize them.

Yeah, I know Zach. He's a dick and a
terrible boyfriend, but he didn't rape

Well, thanks for clearing that up.

How bad was it? Is he okay?

He was shaken up, but he's fine.

You made some pretty serious allegations
on that live stream, and we are sorry

that that happened to you, and we would
like to investigate.

No.

I know that it sounds kind of weird that
I'm saying I was raped, but I don't

really remember.

And I know how crazy that sounds. But
it's not crazy.

So, April, it's very common for victims
to block out significant details from

their assault.

Right, but I only remember bits and
pieces, and I don't want to be, like,

quizzed on everything.

You said you remember this while you
were in therapy. Can you talk to us more

about that?

I don't think I can. What do you mean?

I was on a psychedelic. Okay.

It was a clinical trial for PTSD.

This drug called vitriptamine.

Okay. I really shouldn't have said
anything.

I know how it sounds. Nobody's going to
believe me. We're here because we think

that there is something to investigate.

There's not.

I don't remember enough.

You won't be able to find him. Let us
try.

So the clinical trial has been over for
almost a year, and the drug is being

tested for the treatment of PTSD,
anxiety, depression.

And April, I had no memory of this at
all before taking a hallucinogen. No,

doesn't. But it's not a hallucinogen.
It's not like LSD or DMT. It activates

serotonin receptors, increases
prolactin, which boosts about every

you can think of. And this makes you
recover memories?

Or invent them?

Look. I got to ask you, are you sure
that this assault actually happened?

We don't know yet, but April believes
that it did, and now so do a lot of

Internet warriors.

We're just trying to get to the truth.

All right, look, even if April recalls
details, you're going to need a lot more

than that. The issue here is that she
wasn't aware this crime happened before

taking a psychedelic. Even if this
treatment is gaining legitimacy?

Well, it doesn't matter.

People be huge.

People be tons full.

Both of these cases evaluated memories
that were recovered through hypnosis,

the courts have repeatedly found that
testimony needs to be supported by pre

-hypnotic recollection, okay? They're
absolutely going to apply that here. So,

is he dead in the water? You can use
this statement to ID a suspect, but then

you're going to need independent
evidence. You're going to need a

Well, you know, it's a clinical trial.
They've got to have records, so maybe

there's more details in the session.
Those are not going to be admissible.

it's a very good place to start.

Let's see if I can get permission from
April to talk to a therapist.

Crocyptamine is both plant -derived and
chemically stabilized, making it more

compatible with our brain chemistry than
with psychedelics. And the vast

majority of our participants, they no
longer meet the diagnostic criteria for

PTSD.

I won't be going back to traditional
treatment again.

So it's a miracle drug.

I know it all sounds a little kooky.

Pop a pill, listen to music, lay down in
a dark room and see what feelings come

up. But we have seen what it can do for
people.

Which one of you treated April?

We both did.

At the same time? Is that typical?

It's protocol and necessary.

I mean, the sessions can bring up
strong, sometimes difficult emotions and

last hours.

What were you treating her for?

PTSD. At the time, we believed her
symptoms, hyperarousal, numbness,

hypervigilance, all stemmed from growing
up in an unstable household with an

alcoholic mother.

Think it's possible it actually stemmed
from sexual assault?

Obviously, we don't know for certain,
but whether or not an event happened is

unimportant. Seems it would be very
important.

Detectives, we are not in the business
of investigating the accuracy of a

or catching criminals. We are in the
business of healing.

We explore the meaning behind the
memory.

True or not?

Yes or no?

You think she was raped?

No. I don't.

I pulled her session files.

Take a look yourself.

I trust that you protect both April and
our work.

Thank you.

Dr. Severson, you got a minute?

Unfortunately, no. I'm late for an
appointment. Sorry. We'll walk with you.

And maybe you could tell us what you
wouldn't say up there in front of your

partner.

Really, not much more to say.

That's fine.

We'll just ask more questions, widen the
net, involve a lot more people. You

know, that won't impact the clinical
trials. Max, do you know what

pharmaceutical companies really love?
Police investigations.

Look, I'll start by saying I don't mean
to disparage my colleague. I have a lot

of respect for Dr. Catmull.

He's worked in psychedelics a long time,
which may be the reason he's a little

too invested in pushing protryptamine
over the finish line.

And if it gets solved, all that research
money goes down the drain.

It's not about the money. It's about
helping people.

Jonah wasn't wrong to question recovered
memories in any setting. Sometimes

they're metaphors.

But he didn't give you the whole truth.

April has a history of using
psychedelics.

About five years ago.

It wasn't revealed in the initial
interview.

It came out in therapy. But that should
have disqualified her from the study.

Why didn't it?

Because she's a success story.

Jonah wanted it in.

So what does that have to do with her
memory of being assaulted?

Jonah omitted the time period when April
was using, when she was meeting a lot

of men and blacking out on a regular
basis.

You think that's when this happened?

I can't say for sure it was rape, but
something happened to that girl.

April is trying to put together a list
of the men that she dated five years

but her memory's spotty. Can you
remember who you dated five years ago?

are not talking about me, thank you very
much.

What do we got?

Combing through dating app matches and
cross -checking names of databases.

Liv, no psychedelic is a magic bullet.
For this writer, for

others, it's... the new frontier for
mental health medicine.

Some studies say psychedelics can assist
in memory recall. The others say that

it impairs it. I have a psych professor
at Fordham who had a section on how

psychedelics affect the brain. She can
break it down for me. Good. Go talk to

her.

So how does protryptamine make you
remember things?

or that it modulates the brain's fear
response. Our brain protects us from

traumatic memories, and a psychedelic
like protryptamine can allow you to

those events with less shame and
judgment. For me, psychedelics weren't

about memory. I just felt very connected
and present.

I've done psychedelics. I might have had
a crisis of faith or two that required

some highly classified trips to Oaxaca a
few years back.

You're not going to turn me in. I know.
The DEA is on its way.

It wasn't a clinical trial, of course.
She was a lovely woman, luckily. You're

very vulnerable in that state.

I'm glad to see the practice is becoming
more regulated now.

There have been problems?

Not just with tryptamine.

Sex abuse is a known problem with
psychedelics. Even the naturally

ones like ayahuasca or psilocybin.

All those happy hormones, they mess with
your personal boundaries.

They trick you into thinking you're okay
with things when you're not. Which is

why there's two therapists to make sure
nobody crosses the line.

The first time I was totally freaked
out.

Okay. I didn't sleep at all the night
before, and I got there. I took the pill

and, like, immediately fell asleep. Oh.
And I woke up.

I felt like I...

Understood what love meant.

Wow. Not like being in love, but just
how

everything and everyone is all one. It's
hard to

describe. I know, it probably sounds
nuts. No, it sounds kind of incredible.

So when did you remember the assault?

The third time.

Okay.

They had me put an eye mask on, and it
makes things a lot more intense.

It felt so vivid, this strong feeling of

violation. I actually feel it happening
in my body. I was crying.

Did he tell your therapist?

One of them was sitting with me. He was
rubbing my back and my legs, holding me.

Was that a common?

practice for your sessions, the physical
touch?

Yeah, I guess so. Okay. It's just that's
quite unorthodox for a therapist to

cross that boundary.

What happened afterwards?

I, well, I can still feel it in my body
the next day.

Soreness between my legs, my throat,
like somebody had choked me.

They said it wasn't unusual for the
brain to convince the body that it had

really happened.

In my experience, the opposite is true.

The body that doesn't lie,

and your body was telling you that you
had been violated.

And I think that you were.

But not five years ago.

Have you considered that maybe you were
assaulted during your session?

No.

For a long time, I felt really good
about the therapy.

It changed my brain.

It made me more open, optimistic.

And now it just feels like it got
rotten.

Like I'm too thick to be fixed.

Not true.

You're not too thick to be fixed.

They took advantage of you when you were
vulnerable.

And now they're going to pay.

Okay, so if the Sessions always had two
therapists, what are we thinking? Both

of them did it?

One of them did it while the other
watched?

Or they weren't always together all the
time.

April doesn't know who was there because
she had a mask over her eyes.

Well, we both know for a fact they're
willing to lie to cover it up.

Catmull fudged the Session notes.

Severson sent us on a wild goose chase
looking at five -year -old hinge

Catmull has an MD and a PhD. He's been
big in the psychedelic community since

the 90s. He's a real cheerleader for its
benefits. He's got no complaints

against them. He did a ton of research
papers on protryptamine therapy.

I looked into Catmull's financials. He's
got significant investments in all of

this. If protryptamine gets
distribution, he will make a lot of

Severson's a PsyD.

He's new to the psychedelics game. He
still has a private practice. He

specializes in complex trauma, PTSD,
EMDR. No complaints against him either.

He and Cat Mill started working together
two years ago for Sterilite

Pharmaceuticals, a parent company based
in Japan.

The U .S. division developed
protryptamine and is running the trials.

well, these clinical trials often record
their testing, so, I mean, maybe

there's video of these sessions.

Let's see.

Who's Judd Flannery?

Catmull wrote all of his papers with the
guy, and then it looks like they

stopped around the time Severson came
into the picture.

Wonder what split them up. Yeah, let's
find out.

Dr. Catmull and Dr. Severson are some of
our finest researchers.

Jonah's been with it from almost the
beginning.

Uh -huh. Since they paired up, their
sites consistently report the best

scores.

Why? Well, have you ever had any
complaints about either of them?

No.

What kind of complaint?

April, the SO, recovered a memory of
being sexually assaulted during one of

sessions. We are looking into the
possibility that she was assaulted

session.

That's not possible, April.

Are you sure?

Yeah. She was so pleased with her
treatment outcome.

So, are these sessions recorded, Ms.
Fuentes?

Yes. But given how sensitive the content
is...

I can't turn anything over without a
patient's permission. Well, I can help

with that. This is April's consent, and
you should have a digital copy of that

in your inbox.

I can't give you anything without a
subpoena.

All right, we will get the subpoena.

We'll be back.

Save the world, as long as you have a
court order.

Have you guys ever take that online quiz
where you put in how many times you

visit your parents and then it tells you
how much time you got left with them

before they die?

Hard no.

I used to calculate how much closer I
was to death working at a job I didn't

care about so one day I just walked.

All those years in medical school to
work in a bike shop?

My dad would have throttled me.

Eh, never been happier.

Hey, don't get me wrong. I love helping
people. I just hated everything else.

Including Catmull?

You know, I thought I was so lucky when
he asked me to be his research partner.

Didn't take long to realize he didn't
care much about the science.

Has he been arrested?

Why do you ask?

Dude's a druggie.

I caught him swiping pills from our
inventory.

I reported him to my supervisor at Sarah
Lane. She said they'd handle it

internally. But they never did.

I don't know. But there's definitely
this mentality over there that nothing

stop the momentum, you know?

You ever see him act inappropriate with
a patient?

You mean like sexually?

No, but I wouldn't put anything past
that guy.

A shrink with no empathy.

That's wild.

The one time I asked him why I got into
psychedelics, you know what he said?

Hmm. That's where the money is at.

Judd Flannery was a fresh graduate who
was incompetent and incapable.

That's why I ended the relationship.

Like, for all I know, he stole the meds.
You think we're on the hunt for some

pills that went missing two years ago?

We're way beyond that now, Jonah. This
is about what you did to April.

What are you talking about? Get her
vulnerable and compliant, assault her,

convince her it was a hallucination.

What are you saying that I... You raped
your client. Yeah, that's what we're

saying. Absolutely not. My question is,
was it a tag team situation with you and

your partner, or was it all his idea?

I leave the session sometimes.

I know I'm not supposed to.

Austin.

Austin encouraged me to take a break.

Sure, sure, sure, sure. It's always the
other guy, isn't it? I can prove it.

I have videos. Everything we sent to
Fairlight.

I've got copies.

Have you watched them?

Because you had a feeling.

You knew what was on them, didn't you?

There might not be enough there to prove
rape, but we absolutely have him on

sexual assault.

We're still going through all the
videos, but Liv, we've already found two

women Severson did this to.

Got him.

Three crisis calls this morning, all
before 10 a .m.? I think I deserve this.

Dr. Severson! Hello. Detective!

This isn't the best time. Is it ever?
Get up!

What on earth are you doing?

Arresting you, Doc. What?

Here, enjoy that.

So I'm going

to start with the obvious question,
which is, did you forget that you were

recorded, or did you just not care?

Captain, I can see how this might seem
strange if you're not versed in this

therapy, but that's what this therapy
looks like. You assaulted her.

I comforted her.

A person who's taken protryptamine needs
reassurance. They need someone there to

hold them together, both mentally and
physically. I have to stop you for a

second because you can't just sit there
and pretend that we didn't see clearly

what is on this video. You don't have
the context.

Are my methods unorthodox? Absolutely.

But the use of touch, so long as it's
non -sexual, has been very effective.

You call that there non -sexual?

Yeah. Yeah? Do you know what that word
means?

Nothing that has transpired between my
clients and myself has ever been sexual.

Not for me.

I don't derive any benefit or pleasure
from these sessions. Yeah, well, neither

was she. She was in tears.

She said no, stop, multiple times.

And if I told a surgeon, no, don't sew
up that incision you just made, would he

stop? I think I get it.

So what you're saying is that sometimes
when a person is feeling vulnerable,

right, they just want to be held.

Exactly. The level of this therapy is so
intense, you have to experience it to

understand.

I think someone like you would benefit
from it, Captain.

That is so kind of you to think of me.

Where was Dr. Catmull during all of
this?

I don't recall exactly. He may have been
on a break. The other two patients that

got your special hands -on care, where
was Dr.

Catmull for those?

I would have to check the video. He
wasn't there every single time.

Honestly, you're real smart.

You're smarter than me.

You're smarter than most people who sit
in that chair.

I mean, creating your own hunting ground
and then hiding behind a clinical trial

and then having your victims sign up for
it themselves. That is brilliant.

Regular genius. But you're no different
than every other predator.

You know that.

And now everyone else will too.

Because we have it all on video.

Captain Curry.

Executive officer. Look at you.

Eyes on the ranks.

Thanks, Chief.

Here for CompStat? Yeah, my first one.

Then I'll be late.

Hey, I'll catch up with you.

Chris.

Hey, Captain. Wow.

You're all dressed up.

Yeah, well, CompStat meeting, so I had
to drag this thing out.

Little, uh... Field trip to the records
room?

Uh, yeah. Yeah, Cap asked me to pull
some old case files. Thinks we might

repeat offender.

Hmm. I didn't hear anything about that.

Yeah. Well, hey, we miss you up there. I
gotta go.

Hi. I just, uh, arranged everything.

You're not gonna believe this, but he
pled to the entire indictment. You're

kidding. The judge gave him 15 years.

For three rapes?

Look, Amanda, I'm not upset about this,
and you shouldn't be either.

In this case, there's no way it was
going to be a slam dunk.

The video was inconclusive.

Even if April and the other two victims
were ready to testify, they were in an

experimental treatment program that was
always going to be tricky with the jury.

To be honest, I'm surprised this lawyer
didn't want to go to trial.

Oh, my God, he's protecting a study.

From what? Scrutiny.

Look, Severson is a creep. He's a
predator.

But he is a true believer in his
therapy. And he'll take the hit so his

does. And Sarah Light had all the videos
of Severson. They knew what he was

doing. And they did nothing?

And it's despicable, but unfortunately,
they don't have a duty to report. So

they get off on a technicality? Come on.

Don't look at me like that, all right?
For once, I'd like to be able to stay

within my jurisdiction when it comes to
your live.

We can't charge Sterilite criminally.

But we can try to shut him down.

Sonny, gotta say, shutting down an
entire corporation because of one bad

doesn't sit well with me.

Sterilite sees me getting some good
results out of this drug.

Well, I have no issue with
protryptamine.

Psychedelics in general, when they're
handled appropriately.

But what I do have an issue with is poor
oversight and not paying attention when

a doctor assaults his patients.

And that man is going to prison.

But that does nothing to solve the
underlying issue.

Look, their complete lack of oversight
has created the perfect conditions for

this to happen again with another
doctor. I'm not saying we don't take a

but shutting down the company could shut
down the entire pursuit of this

treatment. But if you do nothing, then
patients are going to stay vulnerable.

Look, listen.

How about this?

Cross -designate me.

Let me take it on.

She said both doctors would be in the
room at all times for my protection and

theirs. And did Ms. Puntage have you
sign a consent form for your sessions to

recorded? I did.

They said it was for the study, and no
one else would see them.

And I'm assuming that you did not
consent to either doctor lying under a

with you and touching your body.

No, absolutely not.

And did Ms. Fuentes or anyone else from
Serolite Pharmaceuticals ever reach out

to you about what was on your recorded
video sessions?

No. Even after Dr.

Jefferson was arrested for sexually
assaulting you?

Not a word.

Thank you, Ms. DiEso. No further
questions, Your Honor.

Ms. Retset, your witness.

Ms. DeAso, what you endured at the hands
of Dr.

Severson was reprehensible, and I don't
want to put you through a long list of

questions, so I'll be quick, all right?

Okay. I really just have one.

Did this therapy help you?

I don't know her.

I was assaulted.

Right. I know.

But that's not what I'm asking.

You had been treated for PTSD.

Is that still your diagnosis?

He's a monster. I don't disagree.

He is.

And, according to your post -clinical
trial follow -up, your PTSD is,

speaking, no longer present.

So I'll ask again, did it help you?

When I wake up at night, I feel like I'm
being choked.

Feel hands on me.

Feel him on top of me over a year later.

I think about what would have happened
if Dr. Severson hadn't done this to me.

What that life would have been like.

I'll never know.

I just don't want what happened to me to
happen to anyone else.

Ms. Fuentes, your company...

Has safeguards in place to prevent
sexual abuse, correct?

Yes, we do. For example, you require two
therapists to be present for the entire

duration of every session.

Correct. You also require that each
session be recorded on video.

Yes. But that didn't really stop Dr.
Severson, though, did it?

We were horrified by his criminal
actions.

But to say that one bad actor is
indicative of our entire company, it's

Right, because you know for certain that
there was only one bad actor. You got

the videos, right? So if anything
inappropriate had happened, you would

seen that.

You do record every session, don't you,
Dr. Fuentes?

Yeah. And have you ever seen a therapist
leave a session when they weren't

supposed to?

I never saw that.

No? And all those videos? That's
astonishing.

I mean, how many hours would you say
there are? There's got to be thousands.

Yes. And approximately how many hours of
those sessions did you watch?

I haven't had an opportunity to review.

You never watched the videos that you
require for the purpose of protecting

patients? Me personally?

No. Okay, not personally, but who does?

You have to understand.

We keep the videos as records.

We simply don't have the manpower to
review that much footage.

We're a research -focused entity.

Its primary purpose should have been to
keep your patients safe.

And if you had done your job, then you
would have seen three women, the very

people that you were supposed to
protect, be assaulted by one of your

Isn't that true?

Yes.

Nothing further.

Ms. Swinton, you may step down.

Both counsel approach.

Ms. Rett said, if things keep going the
way they're going, I'm inclined to rule

in favor of the Attorney General's
office. Your Honor, I would... However,

also understand that Serolite
Pharmaceuticals is at the forefront of a

breakthrough medication that has the
potential to change the face of mental

health treatment, perhaps under the
right leadership. Hold on. Your Honor.

Serolite Board would not object to
removing Ms. Fuentes from her position

CEO, Your Honor.

In that case, I'd be inclined to deny
the Attorney General's application to

them down. Your Honor, respectfully, I
disagree.

Three women have been victimized.

Victimized by Dr.

Severson, who's out of the picture.

Did SAU find any other instances of
therapists abusing patients?

No, they did not, but the potential for
abuse is there.

And unless we shut them down until real
changes are made, it'll stay there. I

admire your passion, Mr. Creasy, but I
don't think you've made your case.

You're welcome to take an appeal.

Step back.

Well, you went down swinging, Stoney.
I'll give you that.

Yeah, well, thanks for the spot on the
team. Your turn.

Take care.

Well, you warned me that we were
punching above our weight. Yeah, I did.

Well, you're not going to give me the I
-told -you -so speech?

When I was a kid, my mom had an
abortion.

Nearly killed the Catholic father. The
baby would have been born with all kinds

of problems.

All this information came out about this
antidepressant that she was using off

and on.

I remember this fancy lawyer, he came to
our house and he wanted her to join a

class action lawsuit.

Told us that hundreds of babies have
been born with birth defects because of

that drop.

What did she do?

Class action was denied certification.

Case never went to trial.

My mom, she couldn't afford to file an
individual claim, so... So that was

The crew sees everything.

It's behind bars.

We're moving for one day, so it's
definitely going to shake things up.

You didn't really lose this case today.

I could share with the pep talk.

Usually I'm the one telling you that we
did all we could.

Well, people change.

What's this? A few files that you
missed.

This one was the killer.

So the witness turned out to be a
fabulous, just makes up a whole bunch of

details. And then the whole case fell
apart at trial. So I don't know why

pulling my old cases.

I suspect it's because somebody told you
to.

So you go ahead, Griff.

You look into anything you want.

Because I don't have any secrets.

And whatever mistakes I've made, and I'm
sure there have been a ton,

I stand by.

Wait.

Look at this.

What is that?

From a shooting in a bar in the Upper
West Side in 2001.

Look at it.

Involving a Lieutenant Jimmy Griffin.

And Detective Catherine Tynan.

Yeah, you're right. I was tasked into
looking into your old cases.

Okay.

And I use that as cover to dig that up.

What are you planning on doing with
this, Rip?

I'm going to find out the truth.

And I'm going to give that to the
commissioner.

I don't care what happens to me.

I don't care what happens to my dad.

Legacy after that.

Legacy? Like, what the hell does that
even mean?

Tynan. I mean, you know this. Tynan,
she's been there for me.

Through some very hard times, okay?

I cannot take any of this anymore.

I gotta know. Gotta know the truth.

It's going to blow everything up.

Are you ready for that?